Filipino Childhood Games
What game requires a small bouncy ball and a set of jacks/stones?
Jackstone
Famous Filipino candy made out of milk.
Haw Haw
Now I can see that we’ve fallen apart from the way that it used to be, yeah. No matter the distance I want you to know. That deep inside of me.
I want it that way by Backstreet Boys
I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
A candle
What insect can chew through wood and destroy your home?
Termites
What is this game which consists of the attack team and defense team, and there are perpendicular lines that must only be used by the defending team when attacking the opposing team?
Patintero
Sour Bubble Gum
Yakee!
And I don’t want the world to see me ‘cause I don’t think that they’d understand. When everything’s made to be broken. I just want you to know who I am.
Iris by Goo Goo Dolls
What is full of holes but still holds water?
A sponge.
How long is a fortnight?
14 days
It is when two people hold both ends of a stretched garter horizontally while other players attempt to cross it in different ways. By each round, the garter’s height is also raised. What game is this?
Chinese Garter
Small Green Mint-Flavored Balls
Stay Fresh
“I’ll be over at ten”, you told me time and again. But you’re late, I wait around and then. I went to the door, I can’t take any more. It’s not you, you let me down again.
Build Me Up Buttercup by The Foundations
What month of the year has 28 days?
All of them.
Which great invention allows people to look through a wall?
A Window
There is a person crouching and other players must jump over the person. What game is this?
Luksong Baka
A biscuit that you only eat the pastel-colored icing. It is half sweet and half biscuit.
Iced Gem Biscuits
Ain’t got no cash, ain’t got no style. Ain’t got no girl to make you smile.
Don’t worry be happy by Bobby McFerrin
What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?
An echo
There are five oranges in a basket. How will you distribute the oranges to five people, such that one orange is still in the basket?
Distribute 1 orange each to the four people and give the fifth orange together with the basket to the last person.
This is played using a wooden board with seven smaller holes on each side and two bigger holes on either side with the use of shells or stones. What game is this?
Sungka
What Filipino candy makes you rethink about eating its wrapper? This can also be hard or chewy.
White Rabbit
On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair. Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air. Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light. My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim, I had to stop for the night.
Hotel California by Eagles
I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?
A bank
A guy is condemned to death. He has to choose a room. Room #1: A fiery inferno. Room #2: 50 Assassins with loaded guns. Room #3: A Room full of hungry lions that didn’t eat in 3 months. Which room is the safest?
Room #3 because the lions would be dead if they didn’t eat in 3 months